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AT THE MARKET – Case goods and accent furniture importer Jofran, Inc. has named Kristen Connell president, a role previously held by Joff Roy, who until recently was president and CEO.
In her new role, Connell reports to Roy, who remains CEO. She has been with the company 10 years as chief financial officer and for the past six years has also has been director of operations. Before joining Jofran, she also was a lead accountant for the company’s accounting firm.
The president’s role combines her role as CFO and director of operations. In addition to accounting and overall operations, she also will oversee administration, supply chain and logistics and warehouse operations.
Roy will focus on sales, product development, vendor management and overall strategy.
“She is incredibly bright and is very well rounded in terms of understanding general business structure,” Roy said, adding, “She is a natural leader and she has a particularly steady way about her – she is able to evaluate and execute without a lot of emotion tied to it…She has just proven herself to be invaluable to us.”
I’m Tom Russell and have worked at Furniture/Today since August 2003. Since then, I have covered the international side of the business from a logistics and sourcing standpoint. Since then, I also have visited several furniture trade shows and manufacturing plants in Asia, which has helped me gain perspective about the industry in that part of the world. As I continue covering the import side of the business, I look forward to building on that knowledge base through conversations with industry officials and future overseas plant tours. From time to time, I will file news and other industry perspectives online and, as always, welcome your response to these Web postings.


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Sony says the idea of embedding cellular chips into its laptops for the business market, as Dell, Lenovo and HP plan to do for Verizon and Cingular in the US, looks unlikely in Europe.
Verizon recently unveiled a deal with the three big laptop manufacturers in September, whereby they will ship their products with EV-DO chipsets from Qualcomm already embedded in them, thus obviating the need for users to buy data cards. Cingular has announced a deal with Dell for embedded connectivity to its GSM network (i.e. enabling GPRS/EDGE/HSDPA services).
In Europe, meanwhile, Vodafone has told analysts it is in talks with several laptop vendors for a similar offering. Sony, however, says a European offering along these lines is a more difficult proposition.
In the US it’s easier, because there are only a few operators and they cover the entire geography, said a spokesperson for the company. In Europe we spoke to the governments and they were quite keen, but they said the operators saw a lot of problems around roaming.
Of course, such an issue would not affect Vodafone, as it has properties throughout the region, so subscribers will roam on other Vodafone networks, but for operators with one or two countries only, it would appear to be something of an issue.

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The Unmanned Leadership Forum will be a 2-hour live, online event hosted by FLIR‘s global sUAS Segment Leader Randall Warnas. The event will bring drone business experts together to talk about the critical issues facing the industry today. As industry gatherings have been postponed, this is a discussion that you won’t want to miss.
DRONELIFE spoke with Randall Warnas about how the event came to be and what viewers can expect.
Warnas says that the event is designed to offer the same opportunities for communication that come about when industry figures meet in person.
“We wanted to create a place where industry leaders could speak freely with the community, semi-detached from the brands they represent,” says Warnas. “When we start interacting as people rather than businesses, we can get more out of cooperation and collaboration… Obviously COVID-19 is shaping a new normal, and as an industry we need to work together to make the most of it.”
Drone businesses across the board are experiencing major changes due to the current crisis: and industry support is more critical than ever. “During the Unmanned Leadership Forum we will have some preset topics that largely focus on the stability of unmanned businesses during and on the other side of the pandemic,” Warnas explains. “We will also be taking in questions from the community in order to drive the most value out of this time together. Much of the conversation around unmanned technology revolves around specs and features, but business leadership may be what we need most right now.”
Some major industry events have been postponed until later in the summer. But with the Unmanned Leadership Forum, Warnas hopes that the industry will come together now, albeit in a different format.
“Obviously social distancing has stifled our ability to come together as a community,” says Warnas. “That doesn’t mean the conversation has to stop, or we need to wait before we hatch our plans for the future. This is part of the reason we brought in Mike Pehel from Interdrone and Jeremiah Karpowicz from Commercial UAV Expo. Their business revolves around bringing the community together, generally in a physical way. I thought it would be interesting for the community to see how that might change as they’re on the front lines thinking about that every day.”
The pandemic has affected businesses of every type – including the drone industry. The effect may be lasting, says Warnas, but it’s not devastating. “For the past two years we have seen industry consolidation while the number of pilots and airframes continues to grow. We will likely find out who has the ‘secret sauce’ of staying power once we get on the other side. This was happening regardless of COVID, but it has definitely accelerated things.”
“The important thing is there are homes for all of the bright minds throughout the industry, and we need to create more platforms for these people to share their talents, join in the conversation, and be discovered,” says Warnas.
Miriam McNabb is the Editor-in-Chief of DRONELIFE and CEO of JobForDrones, a professional drone services marketplace, and a fascinated observer of the emerging drone industry and the regulatory environment for drones. Miriam has penned over 3,000 articles focused on the commercial drone space and is an international speaker and recognized figure in the industry. Miriam has a degree from the University of Chicago and over 20 years of experience in high tech sales and marketing for new technologies.
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Vivo’s Budget Smartphone Y02 Launched At Rs 8000 In This Country: 5000MAh Battery, MediaTek Helio P22 Chip & More
Vivo has added the Vivo Y02 to its lineup thus far.
This one succeeds the Vivo Y01 phone that was announced earlier this year.
The all-new Vivo Y02 is an entry-level phone powered by an octa-core chipset and is backed by a 5,000mAh battery.
The Vivo Y02 is offered in a single model. The phone packs 3GB RAM with 32GB storage.
It is priced at IDR 1,499,000 (roughly Rs. 8,000) in Indonesia. Cosmic Grey and Orchid Blue are the colour variants of the smartphone.
The company has not revealed the phone’s availability in other markets.
But it is likely to debut soon in global markets, including India.
Vivo Y02 specifications: Screen
This features a 6.51-inch HD+ FullView display with 720×1600 pixel resolution which includes an Eye Protection feature
The processor hasn’t been revealed yet.
But it’s likely to run on a MediaTek Helio P22 octa-core SoC paired with 3GB RAM and 32GB storage which is expandable up to 1TB using a microSD card.
The battery is the company’s own Funtouch OS 12, which is based on Android 12 Go Edition OS.
It houses a 5,000mAh battery which boasts a life with up to 18 hours of video playback time.
This phone comes with a 10 watt charging adapter as well as featuring wireless charging as well.
Coming to the camera, the Y02 has an 8MP camera on the back with f/2.0 aperture and a front 5MP camera at the front with f/2.2 aperture.


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The oil industry, led by the Western States Petroleum Association (WSPA), has been working hard to slow the adoption of zero emissions vehicles in the West, pitting them directly against trends in the auto industry and against their own claim that they support increasing access to reliable and environmentally responsible energy options.
WSPA spent over $4.3 million dollars on lobbying in 2021 and invested heavily in lobbying against climate-friendly legislation and policies related to electric vehicles. The trade group continued to drive the false narrative that policies that will help California transition toward lifesaving electric vehicles are “arbitrary mandates.”
Studies show that transitioning to electric vehicles would save more than 7,000 lives in California by 2050, and corporate giants like GM and Ford have already committed to producing mostly electric cars in the next 10 years because it makes sense for their business model. The majority of Californians also support this transition — a decisive majority of Californians believe all new vehicles shouldn’t produce polluting emissions by 2035. But WSPA is opposing key policies that would get more electric vehicles on California’s roads.
WSPA’s recent lobbying efforts to stop the build-out of charging stations and new electric vehicles gives us one more example of oil and gas executives and their lobbyists pushing a narrow corporate agenda to burn more fossil fuels and block California’s leadership on climate, just so they can keep profiting a little longer.
Here’s a breakdown of WSPA’s recent lobbying efforts and claims against electric vehicles:
WSPA created the misleading website Energy Ideas CA to oppose ongoing electric vehicle initiatives in California. The site includes false claims that switching to electric vehicles will drive up consumer costs, despite evidence that clean cars will be cheaper and more reliable than doubling down on dirty energy. We’ve seen this playbook before. WSPA is interfering with our cheap electric vehicle future by trying to keep us tied to dirty technologies of the past.
WSPA opposed electric vehicle legislation by testifying in opposition, signing letters, and commenting to the California Public Utilities Commission. WSPA directly opposed a bill that would codify California’s transition to electric vehicles by 2035, a policy goal that the vast majority of Californians support. Oil, gas, and allied climate opponents are desperately trying to stall progress on climate action — and even take us backward — by forcing Californians to spend money supporting outdated gas infrastructure instead of the clean and affordable solutions they want to invest in.
WSPA falsely claimed that increasing access to electric vehicles will cost Californians jobs and increase prices. WSPA CEO Catherine Reheis-Boyd has pushed the narrative that California’s transition to electric vehicles will cost hundreds of thousands of good-paying jobs. The numbers say otherwise. California has five times more clean energy than oil and gas industry jobs, and phasing in climate-friendly policies will protect workers’ livelihoods and help keep costs reasonable.
WSPA is trying to block progress across the West; they opposed electric vehicle efforts in Washington state and Nevada. In Nevada, WSPA presented at the Nevada Division of Environmental Protection Clean Cars Nevada stakeholder workshop on June 17, 2021, claiming that WSPA’s companies are vital to keeping Nevada’s citizens supplied with the energy they need to fuel their homes. WSPA also testified in opposition to a Clean Fuel Standard bill in the Washington State Legislature calling it a “costly and ineffective mandate.” WSPA knows that oil and gas executives make the most money by ensuring our economy and our communities burn dirty fuels. That’s why they have opposed smart policies that will make the West less polluted.
WSPA has spent millions of dollars trying to influence state governments to defeat bills that will save lives and safeguard our climate, and they’re continuing to mislead the public to protect their own profits at the expense of our health and wallets.
California needs to act quickly and in the public’s interest. We have a lot to gain by transitioning to cleaner cars, and risk facing the steep costs of natural disaster and pollution cleanup, increased healthcare costs, and the loss of land, water, and wildlife that come from burning fossil fuels.


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Motorola recently released the Moto M budget phone to the Indian market at a price of Rs. 15,999. The smartphone launched with Android 6.0 Marshmallow OS, which was a little disappointment for Moto fans but Motorola assured its loyal customers that Android Nougat update is on the way for Moto M.
The company took to Twitter to announce Nougat update arrival on Moto M smartphone. It said that the update would come soon and didn’t mention the exact date of the OTA update.
The phone is out there, and the nougat update will be out soon.
— Motorola India (@motorolaindia) December 13, 2016
Moto M Specifications and Features
To recall what Moto M packs, it is an all-metal smartphone which is up for sale starting today. The phone is water-resistant because of the P2i’s nano-coating on it. It features a 5.5-inch IPS Full HD 2.5D curved glass display, Helio P15 processor, 3GB RAM coupled with 32GB internal storage. The phone can be extended up to 128GB. The handset gets its power from the 3050mAh battery with fast charging support.
The rear camera of the phone is equipped with a 16MP sensor with f/2.0 aperture and PDAF support while the front-facing snapper comes with an 8MP sensor. The selfie camera includes Beauty mode, which enables you to improve the capture images.
In addition to 4G VoLTE, the Moto M provides support for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, USB Type-C port, NFC in addition to a traditional headphone port. With a weight of 163 grams, the Moto M offers fingerprint scanner and Dolby Atmos sounding system.


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Escorts Agri Machinery (EAM), division of Escorts, shall be increasing the prices of its tractors effective November 21, 2021, company said in its release.
There has been a steady rise in commodity prices necessitating a price hike to offset the impact of the continuing inflation. The increase in prices would vary across models and variants, it added.
A meeting of the board of directors of Escorts is scheduled to be held on November 18, 2021, to consider and evaluate proposals for raising funds.
Escorts touched a 52-week high of Rs 1,660 and was quoting at Rs 1,641, down Rs 0.85, or 0.05 percent.
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NickTheGreek wrote:"Why do we need so many identical, over priced, poor choice supermarket shops in such a small area?"
See the thread re Tesco on Queen Elizabeth Street. Different area, exactly the same problem.
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(WXYZ) — Starbucks could soon limit seating at some stores because of coronavirus.
The company's CEO says he's considering keeping only the drive-thrus open for customers.
The coffee chain says it's also prepared to restrict ordering to its app for pickup or delivery.
Starbucks put many of these measures in place in China, where the outbreak originated.
Starbucks says it may temporarily close stores but only as a last resort.


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Drink-drive related road deaths rose by 25% last year, with a staggering one in six fatalities on the UK’s roads connected to alcohol consumption, according to the latest government figures. Department for Transport (DfT) data revealed that 290 people lost their lives through drink-drive crashes during 2012, marking a significant increase from the 230 individuals killed in 2011. On Bing: see pictures of breathalysers 1 in 5 drivers admit to drink driving The death toll made up a shocking 17% of all recorded fatalities on the nation’s carriageways last year.Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800
By Digby Fullam First Official Pictures 17 November 2008 14:15 Aston Martin’s Vantage N24 has given way to this new GT4 – a race-spec Vantage aimed at pro racers and track day enthusiasts alike. The arrival of the GT4 leaves Aston in the unique position of being the only manufacturer producing cars in each GT class. The new car has been six months in development, with Aston hopeful that it will build on the success of the N24, winner of this year’s Nurburgring 24 Hours.Sat, 14 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700
The 2013 SEAT Leon – SEAT’s take on the new VW Golf and Audi A3 – has leaked out ahead of the official reveal. As has become the norm, we have photos of the 2013 SEAT Leon leaked out well ahead of its public debut at the Paris Motor Show in September and before SEAT has had a chance to delight us all directly. A very toned down version of the SEAT IBE Concept we saw at Geneva in 2010 and based on the VW group MQB platform that underpins the new VW Golf and Audi A3, the new SEAT Leon is the third generation of SEAT’s take on the Golf.
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LOS ANGELES, CA (June 2, 2012) – One of the country’s most talked about and respected skateboarders Stevie Williams, celebrated the collaboration of his skateboard lifestyle brand DGK which is now being sold at Macy’s. Yesterday he conducted a special autograph signing at The Beverly Center. The skateboard king welcomed fans with a VIP reception from 5:30 p.m. – 8 p.m. complimented by a public Meet & Greet at 9 p.m. with his good friend and fellow entrepreneur Lil Wayne who also unveiled his TRUKFIT apparel line. The exclusive event took place on Friday, June 1 in the Macy’s Beverly Center Men’s Store located at 8500 Beverly Boulevard in Los Angeles.
June 1st, marked the day that Stevie Williams’ apparel line DGK became available at select Macy’s stores across the country. The first 10 fans who purchased $150 worth of DGK and/or TRUKFIT apparel at Macy’s Beverly Center received a special skateboard from Stevie along with admission to the exclusive VIP reception. “It’s exciting to share this moment with my homie Lil Wayne and show the world skate fashion is cool,” boasts the celebrity skater.
Stevie Williams founded DGK in 2002 and named the acronym “Dirty Ghetto Kids” after his childhood skate crew. He built his brand based on the idea “From those who come from nothing,” inspired by the gritty, street skateboard culture. The fashion line features t-shirts, hats, fleece and a complete street wear collection, meshing Hip-Hop style with the urban skate lifestyle. Raised in the streets of Philadelphia, Stevie endured a stint of homelessness to become a professional skateboarder and highly acclaimed entrepreneur, earning respect among top athletes in the skater world, industry tastemakers and diehard fans. Skateboarding since the age of 11, Stevie rose to fame, landing on Black Enterprise Magazine’s “The Hot List: The Most Powerful Players Under 40.” He also serves as Brand Ambassadors for multiple companies including Supra footwear, G-Shock watches and 9Five eyewear.
Grammy Award winner and Hip-Hop icon Lil Wayne joined Stevie to unveil his TRUKFIT contemporary street wear line featuring signature T-shirts, sweatshirts and hats for men and boys with designs heavily influenced by today’s hip hop culture and lifestyle. Both Stevie and Lil Wayne will continued their daytime retail successes with an exclusive red carpet night time celebratory affair at the world renown club, Drai’s in Hollywood.
Literally rising from nothing to something, Stevie Williams is paving the way for a new generation of skaters who desire to convey the industry’s exclusive culture in the form of affordable fashion for admirers of all ages. “What Wayne and I are doing is bringing Skate Culture inside of corporate enti*ies where a lot of our fans shop and we’re proud to do this with Macy’s,” salutes Stevie Williams.


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Shahrukh and Gauri Khan sizzle at HT India’s Most Stylish Awards 2019
Hindustan Times India’s Most Stylish Awards seek to recognise the trendsetters and trailblazers in the Indian fashion scene. The most glamorous night in fashion and showbiz is back. Shah Rukh Khan and Gauri Khan attended HT India’s Most Stylish Awards 2019. The couple dressed in all black set the black carpet on fire.


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TAIPEI --- It was a hot summer morning in Taipei when several officials from the American Institute in Taiwan, the de facto U.S. embassy, visited the top management of a major tech company, a key supplier to Apple.
It was immediately apparent that this was unlike previous courtesy visits, where U.S. officials stop in from time to time to hear what's happening in the industry. This time, they cut the chitchat and threw out a blunt question soon after they sat down: "Why aren't you moving more of your production capacity outside of China?" they asked. "Why aren't you moving faster?"
Participants described the conversation as "serious and unsettling." "We felt uneasy," said one. "They asked many questions that we didn't know if we could answer. The answers would have involved unreported strategies about ourselves and our clients." But the message was unambiguous: The U.S. government was directly appealing to his company to cut its ties to China, he said.
The American officials also met with several top Taiwanese chipmakers -- companies whose products are used by Huawei Technologies, the Chinese telecoms equipment supplier that Washington accuses of spying for Beijing. The meetings, likewise, appeared to be an effort to draw those companies over to the U.S. side in the escalating Washington-Beijing tech war, multiple sources with knowledge told Nikkei Asia.
"They were here to make sure we understood clearly about U.S. export control rules and told us the U.S. stance about Huawei," a chip industry source familiar with the matter said. "But we read those words as a warning."
For executives in Taiwan's electronics industry, the meetings are another sign that the battle for tech supremacy between the world's two superpowers has reached a new level. It began in 2016 with sanctions against telecoms equipment company ZTE, and has turned steadily more serious as Washington ramps up pressure on Chinese companies which it says threatens U.S. national security.
A person close to AIT declined to confirm the specifics of the meetings, but said that it is routine practice to keep in touch with Taiwanese companies about "supply chain restructuring and export control compliance."
In the space of one year, Washington has revised its export control rules three times to target Huawei -- changes that have affected both U.S. and non-U.S. suppliers of the Chinese company. Suppliers are now cautious over the long arm of the American law, they say. And over the past two years, the Trump administration has accelerated its efforts to blacklist Chinese companies by placing them on the so-called Entity List, adding some 70 more companies and organizations so far this year.
Now, what started as U.S. government pressure on American companies to boycott specific Chinese entities has since become a concerted effort to force non-U.S. suppliers to join a wholesale blockade of Chinese technology.
"Washington has weaponized tech supply chains, for example, in semiconductors, in order to slow down China's technology ambitions," said Alex Capri, a research fellow at the Singapore-based Hinrich Foundation and visiting senior fellow of National University of Singapore Business School. The U.S. is aiming to "suppress Beijing's techno-authoritarianism model," he said.
The message, as understood by the Taiwanese executives, was urgent: Move production facilities out of China, reduce ties with Chinese clients like Huawei and stand with the U.S., or face the potential worst-case scenario of becoming Washington's next target.
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The idea of unpicking the sophisticated tech supply chain that has grown up in China over the last two decades would have been unthinkable just two years ago. But pressure from the Trump administration has made this a reality, with companies from Apple to Google decamping from China to Vietnam, India, Thailand and Malaysia in the last 36 months. For the global tech industry, the question is whether the alternative supply chain that emerges can match the efficiency of the one in China that builds more than 200 million iPhones a year.
Taiwan is in a key position to witness this new emerging U.S. policy because its tech companies sell equally to both sides -- from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., the world's biggest contract chipmaker, to Foxconn Technology Group, formally known as Hon Hai Precision Industry, the largest electronics contract manufacturer globally. They count as clients top U.S. companies like Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Qualcomm, Hewlett-Packard, and Dell, as well as leading Chinese companies such as Huawei, Lenovo, Xiaomi, Alibaba Group Holding, and Oppo. Sitting astride a fault line separating China and the U.S. in a new technology cold war, Taiwan's companies are being forced, albeit unwillingly, to choose sides.
"It is a very confusing era. The tech industry in decades has never needed to pay such close attention to the international political dynamics as now," Tung Tzu-hsien, chairman of key Apple supplier Pegatron, recently told a Taipei forum on the post-coronavirus era.
Last month the U.S. government, via the AIT, publicly echoed its private message that all foreign technology suppliers should leave China.
On September 4, AIT Director Brent Christensen hosted a forum on supply chain restructuring, together with EU, Canadian, and Japanese counterparts, to publicly advocate for decoupling. It was the first time the U.S. had held such an event in Taiwan, a diplomatic gray zone without a full-fledged U.S. embassy, viewed by Beijing as a breakaway part of the People's Republic of China.
International companies "increasingly recognize the dangers of linking their futures to the PRC" and have begun to seek alternative production and manufacturing hubs other than China, he said.
Christensen called on other countries to cooperate on rebuilding the supply chain elsewhere. "Our shared interests and shared values make us natural partners, and we believe we will be stronger and more effective if we work together."
But it is not so simple for technology companies, for whom China is not only a deeply-rooted production base but also their fastest-growing market. Twenty percent of Apple's total revenues, more than 20% of Intel's revenue and 60% of mobile chip king Qualcomm's sales come from China, although in many cases items sold in China are later re-exported to other markets.
A number of the biggest companies are doing their best to straddle the widening chasm between Beijing and Washington, in an effort to avoid picking a side. Apple, for one, has adopted a two-sided strategy to balance itself from the tech war. While it has been pushing suppliers to accelerate their shift away from China since late 2018, it has also been aggressively cultivating Chinese homegrown suppliers to play a more important role inside China, and secure continuous access to the 1.4 billion strong market.
With Apple's consent, Taiwan's Wistron sold its iPhone-assembly factory in the Chinese city of Kunshan this summer to local rival Luxshare Precision Industry. The handover was significant: It paved the way for the Chinese supplier to move up the Apple supply chain, fueling hopes that it could become China's equivalent of the Taiwanese Foxconn, a giant of tech manufacturing. China's Lens Technology also bought iPhone casing factories from Taiwan's Catcher Technology, a longtime Apple metal casing provider, in the city of Taizhou in August.
"Apple has always been cultivating Chinese suppliers. The rationale behind this used to be that it gave Apple more price bargaining power against the existing suppliers, but now it has also become a strategy to diversify geopolitical risks," said an executive-level source familiar with Apple's thinking.
Foxconn, meanwhile, has moved part of its production out of China, but insists they will not be choosing a side. "The global trend toward a G2 [group of two] is inevitable. How to serve the two big markets is something that we've always been planning for," Young Liu, chairman of Foxconn Technology Group told an investor conference in Taipei in August, referring to the U.S. and China.
But not every company has the resources to straddle the widening gap like the Apples and Foxconns of the world. The reality, they say, is that chip developers still rely on a handful of critical U.S. chipmaking production and design tool providers such as Applied Materials, Lam Research, KLA, Synopsys, and Cadence Design Systems to craft the most advanced chips possible.
That has forced all the chip suppliers in the world to apply for licenses from the U.S. government to ship to Huawei, an order which came into effect on Sept. 15. Since then, tech supply companies have put in a nearly impossible position, maneuvering between the U.S. and China to avoid incurring the wrath of either government.
"Generally speaking, multinational tech companies would not want to choose sides in the U.S.-China trade war, but they still have to prepare themselves for [a] possible worsening scenario," Chiu Shih-fang, a senior tech supply chain analyst at Taiwan Institute of Economic Research, told Nikkei.
So far, China's reaction has been muted, but few tech executives think they can count on continued forbearance by Beijing. One tech supplier told Nikkei that they have been receiving more requests to meet with local Chinese officials "for tea," and in those meetings, officials would seek assurance of no exit plans or job reductions.
Some suppliers have been asked to set up offices operated by the Chinese Communist Party within their manufacturing complex. These are all signs that the authorities want to be more informed about the movements of the suppliers, and to prevent any massive exodus, they said. Suppliers are mostly cautious not to make their diversification plans known, for fear of attention from Chinese local governments.
Meanwhile, on Sept.19, China also created its own version of the U.S. trade blacklist: the "Unreliable Entity List," reserved for any foreign companies that treat Chinese companies unfairly, according to the government's judgement. While no one has been put on the blacklist yet, China's state-backed nationalist newspaper Global Times in May said that Apple, Qualcomm, Cisco Systems and Boeing could potentially be added on the Chinese list.
"What we are trying to do is to protect ourselves from being hurt in this fight between two huge elephants [the U.S. and China]," said one supply chain executive, who added that they had been trying to quietly dispose of some Chinese assets and get the money out of the country to invest in Southeast Asia. "We are worried our assets in China could one day be a hostage if the tensions between the U.S. and China continue to deteriorate," he added.
'Out of China'
For the tech industry, it signals the end of an era. Previously, they could design products in the West and manufacture in China's industrial heartland, an area labelled by Bank of America as a "Goldilocks Zone" that, for three decades, has offered the optimum mix of costs, quality, human resources, and infrastructure.
Now, the industry as a whole must face the new reality of nationalism and trade protectionism, and rely increasingly on a scattered, decentralized supply chain emerging in Southeast Asia.
The industry has already begun a migration not seen in two to three decades. Some 2,000 Taiwanese, Japanese, and South Korean companies across all sectors -- including many key tech suppliers -- have indicated plans to diversify production away from China, according to government data. Tech companies, especially American brand vendors like Apple, are looking at moving 15% to 30% of their total output out of China, a share equivalent to their U.S.-bound shipments, and asked its Asian suppliers to help facilitate diversification plans over the next few years.
Japan has launched a 220 billion yen ($2.08 billion) subsidy program to encourage companies to bring manufacturing back home, and allocated an additional 23.5 billion yen to fund moving production to Southeast Asia. Nearly 90 Japanese companies were approved for the subsidies as of July this year, while more than 1,600 companies have applied for the funds. Taiwan, in turn, has been running a "move production back to Taiwan" campaign with special tax breaks and loan interest rates since late 2018.
Apple started mass-producing its popular wireless AirPods in Vietnam starting earlier this year and plans to bring more products to the Southeast Asian country, when, just last year, all such production occurred inside China. The Cupertino-based tech giant also asked key iPhone assemblers Foxconn and Wistron to expand manufacturing capacity in India, and rushed another key supplier, Pegatron, to quickly build a facility there this summer.
Samsung Electronics closed its last smartphone assembly facilities in China in 2019 to shift its focus entirely to Vietnam and India. Production of servers for Google, Amazon and Facebook data centers has moved to Taiwan -- two years ago, all such servers were made in China.
"The clients' mindset has changed. The rising tensions between Washington and Beijing forced them to think of their production strategies, just like buying insurance for themselves. In the next two to three years, you will see not just the big electronics assemblers, but also more and more component suppliers shifting their capacity outside of China to support a new supply chain," an iPhone supplier executive said.
The unexpected outbreak of COVID-19 further drove tech suppliers to diversify the risk in putting all their resources in a single region. Meanwhile, rising fears of foreign espionage have hardened attitudes against Chinese technology companies.
A manager at Taiwan-based Alpha Networks, a router, switch, and networking gear provider, told Nikkei: "Since last year, when we sat down with our U.S. clients, their first question has become: Do you offer an 'out of China' option, especially for those products that will go into mobile wireless networks?"
He added that, as a result, Alpha Networks has started to lower its dependence on China in terms of production. "These American clients now think it's not safe if these products are made in China."
For companies like Acter Group, a facility builder for Google, and key Apple suppliers such as Pegatron, Wistron, and many others, the tech supply chain's Southeast Asia-bound expansions have become an important growth catalyst. "We see our future projects from Southeast Asian nations such as Vietnam, Thailand and Indonesia jumping a lot," said Lai Ming-kun, general manager of Acter.
"Last year, we just heard a lot of news that certain companies are trying to diversify production from China," said Angie Tsao, director and spokesperson of Acter told Nikkei Asia. "But this year, all this news became reality. ... These tech suppliers really started building or expanding new facilities, and we also allocated some of our China staff to help our growing businesses there."
A costly migration
The costs of leaving China are immense, however. The country still offers an unbeatable combination of well-organized infrastructure, skilled labor that no other country can match, capable of mobilizing hundreds of thousands of workers and delivering components in hours with just one phone call.
Research by Bank of America Securities shows that the lead time for products to hit shelves in U.S. stores can take up to 40 days from Thailand, almost twice as long as from China.
Maurice Lee, an executive at Unimicron Technologies, a key printed circuit board maker, said it is still extremely challenging for his company and its peers to move production out of the country. "There are at least 30 to 40 manufacturing processes of making a PCB. ... In China, we've got a complete ecosystem and we are very close to all of our suppliers. ... Moving to anywhere else means all the processes, logistics need to be redesigned, and it also means we have to train workers all over again," Lee, also the chairman of Taiwan Printed Circuit Association, said. "That means an increase in costs."
"Tech manufacturing would face a fundamental change [if it were to move out of China]," said Pegatron's Tung. His company, which previously concentrated production only in China and Taiwan, has built new production facilities in Indonesia and Vietnam in the past two years and is about to build a new one in India. "In the past, it would only take two hours to mobilize the delivery of components from other Chinese provinces. But in the future, it would take at least one to two weeks of waiting time as the supply chain becomes decentralized outside of China."
"This is a new reality that we all have to face and adapt [to]," Tung added.
Government-led policies helped the little-known inner Chinese city of Zhengzhou of Henan Province transform from a deserted agricultural city to a manufacturing center churning out 50% of the world's iPhones every year. The city government of Chongqing, in China's west, assisted HP and its suppliers to establish one of the world's biggest notebook manufacturing hubs. It once produced one in every three laptops globally.
Even before the trade war, however, several suppliers were looking to move some production to Southeast Asia amid rising costs and labor shortages in China. For the past four to five years, it was already getting harder for manufacturers to attract enough production-line workers during peak season. Lack of workers and rising land prices and wages have become a common headache for suppliers in recent years, and had already prompted companies to look for alternatives outside of China.
Sean Kao, an analyst with IDC, said many companies have suffered the rising labor costs in China for several years and started to evaluate some diversification plans, but none of them had acted on these plans until the trade war started.
"Still, none of the countries could fully replace China," Kao said. "But the escalating tension between the U.S. and China and, later, COVID-19, pulled the trigger to push all these suppliers and their clients to be really determined to shift at least some production to other countries, and step out of their comfort zone. ... This new, irreversible move is happening."
Efforts to shift operations outside China have had mixed results. A new supply chain is emerging in Southeast Asia and India, less than 1,000 days after the first wave of punitive tariffs against Chinese imports was implemented in 2018 as tit-for-tat Washington-Beijing trade tensions escalated.
Big tech suppliers like Apple Watch maker Compal Electronics have secured land in Vietnam; AirPods and Xiaomi phone maker Inventec has facilities in Malaysia; while iPhone and Acer notebook assembler Wistron has plants in the Philippines. But those plants, often small-scale, are scattered across Southeast Asia and not operating at their full capacity.
Compal, which also supplies parts to HP and Dell, was given land for a factory in the northern Vietnamese province of Vinh Phuc. But it was fined in 2013 by the local government and had much of the property taken back, after it failed to make use of the land and hire local labor as promised.
"In some of the cases, there used to be no one in these idled factories. Only mosquitoes," a supply chain executive told the Nikkei, describing the state of his company's plants in Southeast Asia a few years ago.
While these factories are no longer idle, the lack of efficiency in Southeast Asia is a new challenge for the suppliers. Yancey Hai, chairman of Delta Electronics, a key power supply components provider for Apple, HP and Dell, said his company has launched a diversification plan for the trade war to expand production in Taiwan, Thailand and India.
However, he said, the Chinese government's efficiency during the coronavirus outbreak is hard to beat. It was among the quickest in the world to help manufacturers resume production with guidelines of virus prevention measures amid the pandemic.
Industries across sectors and market watchers are paying close attention to the upcoming U.S. presidential election, but not many of them believe the competition and geopolitical tensions between Washington and Beijing will die down, no matter who becomes the next American president.
Martijn Rasser, senior fellow of the technology and national security program at the Center for a New American Security, said the U.S. and China are not likely to go back to "good old days," as he put it.
"Should Joe Biden become president, I do expect a change in tone and tactics. [But] there is strong bipartisan consensus on the challenges that a rising China poses, as well as a broad acceptance among the international allies that ... bringing China into the world economy to gradually open [up], and prompt Beijing to moderate its position on a range of geopolitical issues, did not work."
Willy Shih, a professor of management practice at the Harvard Business School, told Nikkei: "The U.S. election could change the leadership on one side ... and that might somewhat improve relations. But there is also bipartisan support for a more aggressive policy toward China, so I'm not optimistic."
"I think a lot of supply chain movement in tech products has been set in motion, and it has momentum that will be hard to change."
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16 December marks 50 years since our inaugural student leadership team came together for the very first time at Walton Hall, which is why we celebrate the date as one of our two birthdays (yes, we know that’s a little bit greedy!)
At this first meeting our President Millicent Marsland and 33 other elected Student Representatives who had travelled from across the OU regions, met with the University’s Council.
To coincide with the anniversary of this momentous event, and truly mark the occasion, we are sharing a digital journey through our history and some of the Students Association’s proudest moments from the past 50 years.
You can browse our fully accessible web-only version on our website, or flip through this digital book and find out about our beginnings, past students and prominent events that have helped to shape us over the last half century into what we are today.
One of the ways you can help us to build the foundations of the next 50 years, is to support our fundraising campaign, which aims to raise £50,000 for the Open University Students Educational Trust (OUSET).
You can find more information on our website on how you can help us support OUSET, whether it’s donating through our JustGiving page, running your own mini fundraising campaign, or even by doing your usual online shopping through Amazon Smile.


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Regulation of big technology companies and social media giants has become a hot-button issue around the globe. Everything from antitrust to deplatforming to how to deal with hate speech online is on the table as governments look to reign in companies like Google and Facebook, who operate on a global scale and have the power to shape our access to information.
Recently, the Australian government has found itself in the crosshairs of those companies and it has mandated a compensation plan for online companies including search engines (like Google) and social media companies (like Facebook) to pay publishers whose content they link too. Google says the plan is untenable and, if carried forward, the company may be forced to pull its search engine from the country.
Kieran Leavitt is an Edmonton-based politics reporter for the Star, who has been following this story. He joins “This Matters” to explain what is happening and what ramifications there are for Canada, as our country embarks on a similar path and tackles issues like regulation on online platforms.
Listen to this episode and more at “This Matters” or subscribe at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts or wherever you listen to your favourite podcasts. If you would like to support the journalism of the Toronto Star, you can subscribe at thestar.com/subscribingmatters.


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July 25 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 2020 GMT on Tuesday:
** U.S. retailer Michael Kors has agreed to buy luxury shoemaker Jimmy Choo for $1.2 billion, snapping up a British company whose towering stilettos have been made famous by celebrity customers from Princess Diana to Kendall Jenner.
** Fukuoka Financial Group Inc and Eighteenth Bank , both based in southern Japan, said they would indefinitely put on hold plans to integrate their operations, citing anti-monopoly issues.
** Stada’s management board and supervisory board are recommending that shareholders accept a sweetened takeover offer for the German generic drugmaker from buyout groups Bain Capital and Cinven, Stada said.
** Nasdaq Inc has agreed to acquire Sybenetix, a London-based startup that uses artificial intelligence to help compliance officers at asset management firms analyze the behavior of their traders in order to prevent market abuse.
** Royal Dutch Shell and SoftBank are among several global groups considering bidding for Equis Energy, Asia’s largest independent renewable energy producer valued at up to $5 billion, sources familiar with the matter said.
** Netherlands-based drinks bottler Refresco has agreed to buy the bottling activities of Canada-based Cott Corp for $1.25 billion, giving a big boost to its business in the United States, the world’s largest soft drinks market.
** Saudi Arabia’s government has hired Goldman Sachs to manage the sale of a stake in Riyadh airport, the first major privatization of an airport in the kingdom, three sources familiar with the matter said.
** French payments company Worldline announced the acquisition of payment processor First Data Baltics and raised its 2017 targets after posting an 11 percent jump in first-half operating profit.
** 9mobile, the mobile operator formerly known as Etisalat Nigeria, has appointed Citigroup and Standard Bank to find an investor to buy into the firm and three companies have shown interest, a banking source close to the deal said.
** Italy rejected a French proposal to split ownership of the shipyard STX France in equal parts with Paris, saying it wanted the state-owned Fincantieri shipbuilder to have a majority stake and control of the board, a Treasury source said.
** Marcato Capital Management LP demanded that Rent-A-Center Inc start the process of selling itself or the activist hedge fund threatened to work to throw out board members up for re-election at next year’s annual meeting.
** Toshiba Corp’s board is set to meet on Wednesday to weigh three offers for its chip unit, including bids from Western Digital and Taiwan’s Foxconn in addition to one by a consortium which was previously a clear favorite, a source familiar with the matter said.
** Negotiations for the sale of Brazil’s huge Belo Monte hydropower dam have cooled due to disagreements on price and regulatory issues, three sources close to the process told Reuters.
** Hong Kong’s CK Infrastructure (CKI) is seen in the lead to buy German metering and energy management group Ista for more than 4.5 billion euros ($5.2 billion), sources close to the matter told Reuters.
** Drillisch shareholders voted overwhelmingly to approve a takeover by United Internet, creating a stronger competitor to Germany’s three telecoms network operators in a deal worth over 8 billion euros ($9.33 billion).
** Activist investor Sandell Asset Management Corp urged Barnes & Noble Inc to sell itself, saying internet and media companies or private equity firms might be interested in buying the U.S. bookstore chain operator. (Compiled by Divya Grover and Nikhil Subba in Bengaluru)


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But with minuscule TV ratings on NBC Sports Network the chances of a third manufacturer coming in are slim to none.
"A third manufacturer is absolutely critical," HPD's Roger Griffiths told Autosport. "The long-term sustainability of IndyCar needs more than just Honda and GM.
"When you've got seven or eight cars and you're subsidising them, that's one thing. But when you've got 12 or 13 or 14 and you're subsidising them, that's completely different, and it's hard for all of us to continue to maintain that level of subsidy.
"I would say that through the next two or three years, I don't believe there is any kind of issue.
"But when you start looking at what happens in 2017; is there going to be a new engine formula or are we going to continue to evolve the current one; what are we going to do about 2020 when that comes around… if you want to continue to have competition, it's very hard to keep that going if there is only two of you doing it.
"We don't need five people doing it; just a third competitive manufacturer would be great. A fourth would be wonderful. What it needs is quality."


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Following in the footsteps of Tata, Renault-Nissan Alliance and Bajaj Auto have today announced their own ultra-budget car with a starting price of just USD 2,500. The car is codenamed ULC and will be built at an all-new, yet to be constructed production plant in Chakan, India.
A new joint venture will be producing the mini car with Bajaj Auto owning 50%, Renault 25% and Nissan 25%. Initial production numbers are set at 400,000 units per year for mainly the growing Indian market and is planned to go on sale in 2011, other emerging markets will possibly follow.
The project has already left its initial feasibility reports and moved into Joint Production Development and is on target to meet its budgeted performance and cost.


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JK Tyres & Industries stated on Tuesday that the industry is anticipated to increase at a double-digit rate due to a rebound in demand for compact automobiles and two-wheelers in India during the past two years.
“The last couple of years back, when the auto sector was experiencing a slight slowdown because of Covid, the tyre industry had seen a bit of a hard patch. But now that the economy is doing better, the markets for compact automobiles and two-wheelers are also resuming in full force,” according to Raghupati Singhania, Chairman and Managing Director of JK Tires & Industry.
The government’s efforts to increase domestic production have also greatly benefited the sector, and demand is still robust in the majority of domestic vehicle markets, he added.
According to Singhania, “Over the next two to three years, demand for tyres in the country is likely to grow stronger,” given the upswing in economic activity and the significant push planned for infrastructural construction.
He pointed out that increased economic activity, better roads, and motorways have all contributed to an increase in the movement of commercial vehicles, which has contributed to the expansion of the trucking industry, which is anticipated to grow by 5% to 7% this year compared to last.


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Google has revealed a number of content partners for its forthcoming US Google TV launch.
Turner Broadcasting has optimised a number of its websites for viewing on Google TV, including TBS, TNT, CNN, Cartoon Network and Adult Swim, while NBC Universal has teamed up with the search engine giant to delver an app for CNBC Real-Time, allowing users to track stocks and access news feeds while watching financial news from CNBC on the TV.
HBO meanwhile will deliver its HBO Go! service via Google TV. Authenticated subscribers will be able to view HBO content on-demand via an enhanced website designed for the service.
The US NBA will provide NBA Game Time, an application that allows user to follow basketball game scores in real-time while watching highlights of matches in HD.
Other content partners named by Google include Amazon Video On Demand and Netflix, The New York Times, USA Today, music sites Vevo, Pandora and Napster, Twitter and Blip.tv.
Google has also launched a new website. Google.com/tv, to provide more information about the features of the service. The company says that Google TV devices from Logitech and Sony will launch next month.
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For any home furnishings retailer, no matter how big or small, you need look no further than your local car dealer to find out how to drive your business (pun intended). The automotive world has seen its share of challenges. Consolidation and new ways to buy started emerging in a
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Above: Ken Smith, left, with furniture analyst Jerry Epperson at High Point Market April 8, 2019. Photo by RetailerNOW team.) New orders for residential furniture fell 5 percent in February from the same month in 2018, according to a survey by High Point, N.C., accounting and consulting firm Smith Leonard.


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The demand for urban logistics space throughout the continent is growing, as there is an increasing number of e-commerce orders.
Due to congestion and lack of effective transport systems, most people find it stressful going to town.
And this is where some African entrepreneurs have taken advantage of.
In Kenya, Twiga Foods uses technology to pool the orders of people and delivers them to their doorstep.
With this, consumers do not have to face the hurdle of going all the way to the market.
Twiga Foods is one of the largest distributors of food staples in Kenya. Last year, the company raised $10.3 million.


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Last summer, customers of the pirate IPTV service Region 51 began receiving emails indicating that the service had been shut down.
“We’ve had to make this very difficult decision, to shut down Area 51. We’ve been so successful, and we wouldn’t have been able to do it without agents like you,” the email began.
While this initially seemed like bad news to subscribers, soon customers of the closed service began receiving emails from a service called Singularity Media informing them that their accounts had been hacked and that all logins would work as before. Soon after, Singularity also shut down.
Last August, TorrentFreak revealed that Area 51 had been shut down by the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment. This event was accompanied by a settlement agreement, which included a clause that the Area 51 operator could not launch any new infringing services.
It seems that this agreement was not respected, which could lead to serious consequences.
The Hollywood Giants file a massive copyright infringement lawsuit
In a California court yesterday, Warner Bros. And several Universal, Amazon, Columbia, Disney, Netflix, Paramount, Sony and other content creators are suing Jason Tusa, the alleged operator of Area 51 and three other pirate IPTV services.
According to the complaint, the plaintiffs first discovered that Tusa was violating their rights through Area 51, a service that received three million visits between June 2019 to June 2020, making it the “largest stand-alone pirate IPTV service” through traffic. in the United States of America.
After identifying Tusa, his sister, and now deceased wife as the operators of Area 51, prosecutors issued a cease and desist order for their illegal activities. While negotiating the settlement through an attorney, Jason Tosa was allegedly already working on a replacement.
On July 1, 2020, Tusa reportedly registered the Singularitymedia.net domain and created a close mirror of Area 51 sites. As previously mentioned, Area 51 customers have received emails saying that Singularity will be taking over. On July 8, prosecutors contacted Tosa again, requesting a halt to the singularity, which subsequently fell.
Months later on October 12, a confidential settlement agreement was reached regarding Area 51 and exclusivity services that included promises by Tusa not to operate or assist in the operation of another infringing service. According to the plaintiffs, that was not honored.
Tosa has allegedly launched two more services
Before signing the agreement, Tosa launched his third offending service. Digital UniCorn Media (DUM) offered similar pricing and programming to its predecessors, but despite trying to obscure his connections to the service, the studios were able to link Tusa to the platform by catching his many faults.
A domain for the new service carried an unauthenticated email associated with Tusa and it was noted that he had uploaded a video of an inflatable unicorn to YouTube and commented on it using his personal and UniCorn Media accounts. Prosecutors contacted Tosa’s attorney to report a breach of the settlement agreement, and while Tosa denied contact, he also took down the video. After that, DUM went offline, with Tusa posting on Instagram that the service was gone for good.
According to the lawsuit, Tusa launched a new service called Altered Carbon but despite taking a number of steps to distance himself from the platform, the studios say they’ve been able to tie him to it in a number of ways.
Alleged Tosa links to modified carbon
While a single piece of circumstantial evidence wouldn’t be enough to determine that Tusa is in control of Altered Carbon, the studios reveal a laundry list of points at which they seem to be doing it all together.
Altered Carbon uses the same slogan as DUM and prosecutors saw him discussing the service on Telegram. The IP addresses used by the service are close to those used by DUM since they use the same host but the complaint is still there, especially when it comes to activity and mention on social media. Some other evidence is more problematic.
Tusa uses legitimate cable operations for source streams
“Tosa’s public online postings show that he obtained the streams running Variable Carbon through a process of redirecting licensed transmissions from legitimate cable services,” the complaint reads.
“A video posted to Tusa’s social media account shows it stringing together a series of cable boxes, which indicates that Tusa uses the signals routed through these cable boxes as a source for its transgressive streams.”
“Altered Carbon is nearly identical to DUM, except for the name and superficial design changes. Like DUM, many of Altered Carbon’s US channels have ads localized to Tosa’s hometown of Naples, Florida,” the complaint adds, suggesting the services use the same setup. capture.
Altered Carbon has an affiliate program
According to the complaint, Tusa operates a program that enables Altered Carbon to reach a broader audience. By selling “pool credits” to affiliates for less than the retail price, they can then sell the service to their customers at a profit. For example, 70 credits (each worth a month of service) sell for $6.42 each while 150 credits sell for $4.66. They are sold at whatever price the seller chooses.
“The Tusa affiliate network is increasing his client base and profits. More affiliates means more customers buying illegal access to copyrighted works, more money flowing into Tusa’s pockets, and more infringement of copyrighted work.” Studios writes.
Tusa is infringing and profiting from exploiting plaintiffs’ copyrighted works, and he refuses to stop. When plaintiffs confront Tusa with proof that he is running an infringing service, Tusa shuts it down and starts another one, which leads to a repeat of cat-and-mouse games. The plaintiffs are irreparably damaged by the infringement. Tosa is insolent in ways that cannot easily be accounted for or remedied by monetary compensation.”
Claims of copyright infringement and breach of contract
While the studios are clearly unhappy with Altered Carbon’s service, they’re also concerned about Tusa’s violations of its settlement agreement. Plaintiffs say he mocked their rights and by continuing to start new services, he is sending a message to other hacking services that they need not take plaintiffs’ rights seriously. As a result, the lawsuit is already shaping up to be a lesson in compliance.
Prosecutors say Tosa violated their rights by distributing at least 110 copyrighted works including the Dunkirk, Harry Potter, Joker, Tenet and The Hulk movies, as well as many other major titles. They also allege violations related to TV shows including The Office, Law & Order, Friends and The Big Bang Theory.
Alleging direct and willful copyright infringement, the complaint seeks a maximum of $150,000 in damages per title. Alleging copyright infringement regarding the channels the service provides 24/7, the studios are seeking $150,000 in damages for each title. For willfully inciting infringement of copyrighted works by customers (and by encouraging affiliates to promote the service for infringement), the complaint also seeks $150,000 per work.
According to the studios, the settlement agreement that Tusa previously signed required him to cease and desist, and since he failed to do so, he was in breach of contract. The exact details of the agreement are not public but it appears to have come with a clause that Tusa would pay a settlement amount in the event of a breach.
Demands, reservation orders, domain takeovers
Before any trial, the complaint seeks preliminary and permanent injunctions to prevent Tosa from continuing his operations. The studios also want his equipment confiscated along with any and all documents relating to the infringement of their rights.
There are also demands for Altered Carbon’s domains of services to be handed over to the studios, which is a common request in such cases.
The complaint and list of copyright works can be found here and here (pdf)


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Jeddah: Yogorino launched their new Yosmile Kiddies cup. The cup was available in 2 models for boys and girls. Yosmile Kiddies cup available at all stores of yogorino in KSA.
Yogorino new coffee travel was launched. Our travel mug was available in all our stores throughout KSA. Price is Mug only 35 SR and Mug with Cappuccino 38 SR. Offer available still stocks finishes.
Yogorino is proud to announce the opening of our brand new store. Get ready we are coming to Mall of Arabia. Come and join our grand celebration.
Yogorino is proud to announce the opening of our brand new store. Get ready we are coming to Salam Mall. Come and join our grand celebration.
HORECA is the biggest annual hospitality exhibition which has been running for 24 years in Lebanon, 3 years in Jordan and 6 years in Kuwait and for the 7th year in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia after the success of the exhibition in November 2016. Yogorino also participated in Horeca 2016.
Yogorino participated in Saudi Horeca fest 2016 Riyadh , Saudi Arabia
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The Russian Federation places a ban for export of petroleum and petroleum products to Ukraine as TASS reported citing Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, according to 112.international reports.
“The ban on the export of the petroleum and petroleum products to Ukraine is established,” Medvedev said.
He also reported about the extension of the ban for the import of some Ukrainian products.
“I have signed the regulation of the government on this topic. We extend the ban for the import of particular kinds of the production to Russia; this measure will concern the Ukrainian products of the machinery, light industry, metalworking, which cost made almost $250 million last year,” Medvedev said.
At the same time, the Russian Prime Minister noted that some domestic products will be exported to Ukraine only after special permission.
“The list of the products, which can be exported to Ukraine on the basis of particular permissions from June 1, 2019, is to be established. The energy industry products, including coal, petroleum and petroleum products, are in this category,” he noted.
According to the State Fiscal Service, in 2018, Ukraine imported petroleum products for $5,54 billion. The import from Belarus made $2,21 billion (38,1%), from Russia – $2,07 billion (37,3%), from Lithuania – $570,5 million (10,3%). The petroleum products for $787,3 million were exported from other countries.
The supplies of the Russian coal to Ukraine increased by 29% or up to 12,4 million of tons, in 2018 as Russian Energy Ministry reported. The department predicted that the volume of the export will remain at the same level in 2019.
On April 10, the Cabinet of Minister of Ukraine expanded the list of goods banned to import from Russia. The embargo is now extended to formalin and carbamide-formaldehyde concentrate, springs for freight wagons, electrical equipment for railway automation and communication devices, and electric conductors for voltage above 1000V.
Earlier the Russian cement clinkers were included into the list of goods banned to be imported to Ukraine.


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Shepherd Neame, Britain’s oldest brewer, has announced 'exceptional' trading results across it managed pub estate, but stated it faces increasingly 'challenging market conditions' for its beer.
Announcing its results for the 26 weeks to 26 December 2015, the Kent-based company said its turnover increased slightly by 0.3% to £73.7m. Managed pub like-for-like sales were up 6.5%, with liquor up 5.2%, food up 7.4% and accommodation up 11.2%. However, in the 'brewing and brands' part of the business, revenue was down -8.9% and operating profit down -54.9%.
During the period Shepherd Neame sold 131,000 brewers' barrels of beer or 37.7 million pints, including 112,000 brewers' barrels of own brewed beer (32.3 million pints). Own brands include Spitfire, Bishops Finger and Whitstable Bay. The company also brews lagers under licence, including Asahi Super Dry and Samuel Adams Boston Lager. Overall beer volume decline was 11.3%, while own beer volumes, excluding contract were up marginally at 0.1%. The business was also hit by higher water treatment costs.
On the pub side, revenue in the tenanted estate grew by just 0.3%, but operating profit fell by -1.1% due to a lower number of pubs and increased property investment. During the period, it acquired two managed pubs, but disposed of five tenanted sites and transferred six pubs from tied tenancy to free-of-tie leases. The company currently operates 335 sites ranging from pub to hotels, including 275 tenanted or leased sites, 54 managed pubs, and six investment properties held under commercial free-of-tie leases.
Shepherd Neame said the success of its pub estate was down to substantial investment in its best and largest outlets to modernise and premiumise the offer. Total cash invested in capital expenditure was £6.3m. The company raised £8.8m in property sales, which included the disposal of 10 acres of land.
Chief executive Jonathan Neame said: 'I am pleased to report that our half year results have been characterised by a sustained and strong trading in our pub business, positive operating cash flows and significant proceeds from property disposals.
'Our consistent investment in our brand and pub assets to align them to today’s consumer demand has resulted in the sustained quality and performance of the business in a highly competitive marketplace. We remain cautious about the outlook for consumer spending, however I am confident we have the right strategy to succeed and the skills to deliver it.'


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Wine is an intrinsic part of South Africa’s heritage and culture, with the first wine farms in the Cape dating back to the 17th century. For the fourth consecutive year, Taj Cape Town proudly hosted the annual Taj Classic Wine Trophy awards ceremony. On 6th March 2015, judges, trophy winners and media enjoyed a three-course gourmet meal paired with the award winning wines, in the new five-star banqueting venue, The Reserve at Taj Cape Town.
Local entries were exposed to a rigorous blind-judging process by a panel of international wine experts, benchmarking South African wine against some of the world’s best. Only 16 of the wines entered into the competition were awarded with the prestigious Bacchus Trophy and included well-known names such as Hamilton Russell, Glen Carlou, Bellingham and Morgenster. Groot Constantia took top honours and walked away with the coveted Most Iconic Entry of 2015 award.
In addition, a local judging panel which included Michael Pownall Taj Cape Town General Manager were tasked to select the wines that offered the best overall value to Taj Cape Town patrons and readers of GQ South Africa. The six selected wines, were presented with certificates of recognition and will be showcased in GQ South Africa and served in the Taj Cape Town during the month of June.


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Qatar Auto Show 2013
The Qatar Auto Show is the biggest automotive event in the Middle East, according to The Associated Press. In 2013, it showcases brands and vehicles from across the globe, including family sedans, SUVs, luxury vehicles, motorcycles and sports cars.
The Associated Press reported that 26 new cars will be revealed at the 2013 Qatar Motor Show, a new milestone for the show.
Audi, Volkswagen, Porsche, Bertone, Ford, Ferrari, Kia, Maserati, McLaren, Mercedes, Mini, Mitsubishi, and Toyota will regionally premiere their latest models. In addition, Brabus, Lamborghini and W Motors will showcase models never seen before - not regionally, not globally, the AP said.
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Increased Demand During Pandemic Results in Signicade A-frame Shortages
As businesses scramble to reopen, signage has played a major role in helping them to announce their reopening and various COVID-19-related safety messaging, and with some schools returning to in-person instruction, the heightened demand for coronavirus safety signage isn’t expected to waver anytime soon. However, those in search of Signicade A-frames may find them out of stock or backordered for weeks or more with industry printers, as Signicade’s manufacturer, Plasticade, catches up with demand.
“We’re being told current delivery to replenish our inventory is some time in September,” Brandon Westmoreland, promotional signage sales manager at Dallas-based National Banner Company, said. “Most customers aren’t willing to wait that long and have chosen to go with one of our other options.”
Those options include metal A-frames and swing signs mainly, but spring and gator-base signs have been in the mix as well. These all come at lower price points but without the well-known brand name, which likely accounts for its demand in the industry, Westmoreland noted. However, the other sign frames are still durable and appropriate for outdoor use.
“The metal A-frame is the closest product we have to Signicade and the most popular one," Westmoreland said. "Like the Signicade, it’s an A-frame that holds two signs back to back.”
David Foy, president of Plasticade, Des Plaines, Ill., cited the demand for all sign frames escalated in late March to early April.
“Because our business has summer seasonality, it’s normal for us to build inventory in the winter to get a running start on summer,” he said. “This year, even though our sign frame factory was running 24/7, the market demand depleted our winter build earlier than normal.”
Since the company was classified as essential, it remained open during its state shelter-in-place order, but in the first few months understaffing due to the pandemic may have contributed to decreased production, Foy admitted. However, it was a sacrifice he was willing to make until the company put a variety of protective measures in place to allow it to return safely to full staffing levels. Additionally, the company is increasing production by moving forward with an already planned multimillion-dollar expansion that will add a new production line later this month. And due directly to the unforeseen demand, the company rushed the creation of more molds, which typically have an eight- to 12-week turnaround, but were completed within a few months instead.
“We expect our customers to start seeing relief by the end of August, and we expect to see demand returning to normal levels by end of this year,” Foy said.
In the meantime, Foy encourages the sale of Plasticade’s other sign frames and stands or its traffic safety barricades repurposed for crowd control and social distancing barriers.
“I think we’ve done a good job of working with our [customers] to point them to products that are in stock, in the short term,” Foy said. “If product A isn’t immediately available, would product B be a suitable alternative? Our [customers] have been extremely nimble and creative in working with us to juggle short-term and long-term availabilities.
“... We continue to hold ourselves accountable to meet demands of the customer base that has trusted us for decades,” he concluded.
Amanda L. Cole is the editor-in-chief of NonProfit PRO. She was formerly editor-in-chief of special projects for NonProfit PRO's sister publication, Promo Marketing. Contact her at firstname.lastname@example.org.


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On Sunday, March 10, the clocks pushed forward an hour, trading you sunlight for sleep. This sounds fair —in theory — but it sure as heck doesn’t feel like it. Daylight saving time (DST) can throw you for a loop, catapulting you into a state of what feels like permanent exhaustion for days, sometimes weeks after the exchange has been made. On the surface, you might assume your internal clock is the only thing DST messes with. But alas, friends, according to new research, Daylight saving time affects your behavior, too. Interestingly enough, the proof of that can be found in one of the most unexpected places: your shopping cart.
Personally, I have a love-hate relationship with DST that I think a lot of people can relate to. I love the sunshine and live for the longer days ahead. But I hate waking up every morning feeling like I’ve been hit by a bus. Generally speaking, I’m actually the linear definition of a morning person. I rise and shine as soon as I wake up, save for the first week or so post-DST, that is. This time of year, you can find me downing large cups of coffee for the slightest hint of energy. It’s a struggle, it’s a mood, and evidently, it's a behavioral change-up, too.
Aside from the fact that you might be struggling to come to when your alarm sounds first thing in the morning, new research from the University of British Columbia’s Sauder School of Business discovered that daylight saving time can affect the way you shop for groceries. Skeptical? Well, per ScienceDaily’s press release on the study, it’s similar to how, if you go grocery shopping when you’re hungry, you toss everything and anything that looks appetizing into your cart to curb your hunger (which, to me, looks like cookies on cookies on cookies). Researchers found that sleepy shoppers buy a variety of items to help keep them awake during DST. I mean, is the subconscious pure genius, or what?
In order to test how DST impacts your behavior, researchers conducted a series of studies to analyze how people from North America and Asia, who were experiencing fatigue for various reasons at the time of each experiment, shopped. To give you an idea of what those experiments looked like, one scenario required a "group of sleepy consumers," per ScienceDaily's press release, to choose four candies from five bowls — each of which contained a different type of candy — in any combination.
According to the study’s results, which have been published in the Journal of Marketing Research, sleepy shoppers tend to want more variety in their purchases. More specifically, Charles Weinberg, professor of marketing and behavioral science at UBC Sauder and a co-author of the study, said in a statement for the study's press release that shoppers who are exhausted as a result of DST — who may have lost, on average, anywhere from 30 to 60 minutes of sleep as a result of the time change — often seek out more variety from their shopping trips.
“We wanted to see how this would play out in the real world,” Weinberg explained. “Through the study we're seeing that you tend to buy more different types of candy bars, for example, on the day after daylight savings time than you would on other days of the week. That's even after controlling for how many candy bars you choose."
Listen, if DST wants to sprinkle a little more variety into your life, I say, c'est la vie. Who doesn’t love indulging in a decadent candy bar once in awhile? If nothing else, see it as a peace offering. The universe knows you're sleepy, and it’s sorry for the inconvenience. Hence, it brings you chocolate. No harm, no foul, right? But here’s the thing: DST doesn’t just switch up your shopping behavior.
Let’s face it: Even the slightest lack of sleep can throw your body into a tizzy, so you probably shouldn’t expect any less when you’re forced to push the clocks forward and sacrifice an hour of prime shut-eye time. In fact, back in November of 2018, Lauren Smith, MS, RD, LDN, a registered dietitian at Dietitians of Palm Valley, told Elite Daily that if you aren’t mindful of adjusting your eating schedule, DST could take a toll on your appetite.
“Considering there is only a one-hour shift when the clocks fall back, daylight saving time shouldn't affect your appetite at a physiological level," Smith explained. However, if you don’t adjust your diet to the new schedule, but start working out earlier in the morning, for example, that’s when your appetite could really feel disrupted.
“The biggest mistakes I see most people make include pushing off meals or snacks far more than one hour," Smith said, "doing intense physical activity on an empty stomach, and then having trouble managing their hunger later in the day."
Bottom line: Just make sure that, if you change one aspect of your schedule in response to DST, you're also being mindful of how it’ll affect your routine, and body, as a whole. We'll get through this, friends, I have faith (and a sudden urge to browse the candy aisle).


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A new study warns that various tracking companies like Facebook Graph API, Google Analytics or Crashlytics have access to your personal information through the smartphone apps. More than 70% of the smartphone apps report the data to third parties. Every time an individual installs an iOS app or an Android app, the user’s permission is sought before accessing the personal information. Certain information gathered by these apps is necessary for them to work properly, for example, maps will need access to your location in order to provide you accurate information.
Once the app has the permission to collect the information, it can then share the same with anyone it wants to, this allows the third party companies to track where you are, how fast are you moving, etc. The researchers from IMDEA Networks Institute in Spain developed an Android app called Lumen Privacy Monitor. This app gives a picture of the data that is collected and transmitted from people’s phones. It analyses the information sent out and reports which online services harvest personal data.
This access to data allowed the researchers to learn how mobile apps collected the personal data and with whom did they share the same. They analyzed more than 5000 apps of 1600 people and discovered that 598 internet sites were tracking users for the purpose of advertisement, using social media like Facebook, Yahoo and Google. The majority of the apps, almost 70% were connected with one tracker and about 15% of the same were connected to more than five trackers.
Tracking users on the mobile device is a huge problem with more than half of the app trackers using websites to track the users. Every time you allow access to personal information, the apps gather your information which is accessed by various third parties. The use of websites for the purpose of tracking is also increasing, every move of yours is tracked by the devices. In order to increase sales and to reach out to the users, various websites constantly track the activities of the users. It could be difficult to determine what information to share and what to keep confidential. With the increasing cyber theft and cyber crimes, it has become necessary to keep a watch on your own actions and to ensure that not every information is shared. Whenever you allow access to personal information, keep in mind that this information could be shared with many others by third party services.


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The Suzuki Jimny, despite its age, remains popular and has earned a spot in our top 20 most inquired-about cars in 2023.
Suzuki has officially pulled the covers off the new Jimny 5-Door, offering a more practical off-road-ready experience.
Toyota's offer to badge engineer the Jimny and Swift has been declined by Suzuki, prioritizing the preservation of their brand identities.
More doors, more practical, and more things to love about the Jimny. Three or five, take your pick.
The five-door Suzuki Jimny is already in the Philippines as units are sighted in transit via Star Tollway Expressway.
These overland-capable vehicles sold in the Philippines are our pick to jump-start your adventure.
The Suzuki Jimny’s ready for the production line by April in India with 100,000 units slated for production per year.
Suzuki’s massive investment plan aims to electrify its entire range globally by 2023, along with plans for an EV Jimny.
After months of speculation, Maruti Suzuki officially unveils the long-awaited five-door Suzuki Jimny in India
It’s the end of the year, and this is some great news before 2023 hits. Can we expect a longer and more practical Jimny?
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The fourth-generation Suzuki Jimny is still proving to be a hit for the Japanese automaker as its appeal is still as strong as ever despite the price increase and the evolution of the market...
While Suzuki is still testing out the 5-door model in real-world applications its reveal date has been set for January of 2023 for the India Auto Expo.
The following vehicles will surely get you through floods without a sweat.
A new model launch and much more await those who are going to see the Suzuki booth at the 8th Philippine International Motor Show.
The Jimny is now safer than ever before thanks to a new update in its home market.
Could a Pajero Mini revival go up against the lonesome Suzuki Jimny?
The following updates are very minimal.
Suzuki’s Jimny is a widely successful product thanks to the niche it occupies, here are a few facts that you may not have known.
The Suzuki Jimny may be small, but it has what it takes to be a great off-road vehicle that can go toe-to-toe with its bigger contemporaries.
Suzuki Philippines will get its new Jimny units from India instead of Japan—prices also increased by P10,000.


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The 30th November 2014 saw the Australian Department of Agriculture introduce a new law on regulated timber products. This now means that Under the Illegal Logging Prohibition Act 2012, it is now a criminal offense to import illegally logged timber and timber products into Australia or to process domestically grown raw logs that have been illegally logged. This prohibition applies to all timber and timber products.
It is now essential that any regulated timber products being imported into any port of Australia must be accompanied by a declaration of due diligence stating that the goods have not been illegally logged.
We sometimes find it easier to bury our heads in the sand and not think about things like how illegal logging is actually effecting our planet and the people that inhabit it. The economic and social impacts of illegal logging are huge. Not to mention the effects on the environment.
Around the world, many forest-dwelling low economic people often lose out to outsiders who try and gain access to their forest – thus causing repression and/or human rights violations. Then there’s the money which governments lose when trees are cut without the right permits and are smuggled abroad. Governments lose out financially in several ways including lost revenue from taxes and duties and the costs of efforts to manage illegal logging.
Some little known illegal logging facts:
- 73% of timber production in Indonesia is thought to stem from illegal logging, according to the OECD
- 25% of Russia’s timber exports originate from illegal logging, according to the World Bank
- In Gabon, 70% of harvested timber is considered to be illegal, according to the World Bank
- The World Bank estimates that illegal logging costs the global market more than US$10 billion a year and reduces government revenues by about US$5 billion a year
- In Indonesia it is estimated that up to 90 percent of logging is illegal.


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Camarillo Premium Outlets preparing for crowds
Shoppers at the Camarillo Premium Outlets will see a stepped-up police presence starting Thursday as a throng of shoppers will bring a flood of traffic to the area.
The shopping center will be among the busiest malls in the area over Thanksgiving weekend as consumers visit the more than 160 stores there.
Police will be present to help handle the increased traffic as well as serve as a deterrent to would-be criminals, said Sgt. John Franchi, a community resource officer with the Ventura County Sheriff's Office.
"We're going to be out there in full starting Thursday evening and through the weekend," Franchi said.
This will include setting up a command post at the outlets.
The agency also will boost traffic units around the outlets starting Thursday, he said.
In addition, at least three or four officers will be on bike patrol at the outlets.
"It's a busy time of year," Franchi said. Part of this sadly includes petty criminals and others trying to take advantage of the large crowds.
"That's a sad reality," he said.
To lessen the burden on the already-crowded streets and parking lots in the area, shoppers are encouraged "to do their part as well by carpooling and taking public transportation or ride-sharing services whenever possible," Kassandra Bishop, a marketing representative with the Camarillo Premium Outlets, wrote in an email.
"Added controls — such as barriers, cones and signage — as well as an increased security presence to direct traffic and ensure guest safety," will be awaiting shoppers, Bishop wrote.
Many stores will open after dark at 6 p.m. Thursday and remain open throughout the night Thursday through 10 p.m. Friday. They will reopen at 8 a.m. Saturday and close 10 p.m. Crowds will get another 11 hours to shop starting at 9 a.m. Sunday.
The crowds of people also promise to attract pickpocketers, shoplifters and other criminals.
"We encourage shoppers to be extra cautious during the holidays with their personal belongings and their new purchases," Bishop wrote. As part of this, the outlet has put in place "a very detailed holiday security plan at the center" that includes increased security measures.
Shoppers are encouraged to review a map of the shopping center at http://www.premiumoutlets.com/outlet/camarillo/map and set up places to meet at the outlets if they go in a group.
To avoid being a crime victim, shoppers are encouraged to be aware of their surroundings, Franchi said.
"Don't leave purses, phones or other things of value in sight," he said. "And be alert, because someone is probably watching what you're doing."
Shoppers, including motorists, are also urged to be patient.
"There will be a lot of lines, and there's going to be delays," he said. "It's a big crowd out there."
Above all, "enjoy yourself and have fun," he said.


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Whole Foods to open in mid-November
Treasure Valley residents will have another option for where to do their Thanksgiving meal shopping.
Whole Foods is expected to open in mid-November, just in time for one of the biggest eating days of the year.
Whole Foods is a market that specializes in organic foods and natural products.
The 35,000 square foot store is the state’s first and is located at the corner of Broadway and Myrtle.
The retailer is hiring for the Boise location. Click here for their job listings.


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Shack will open in Creve Coeur and O’Fallon, Mo.
Shack will expand in a big way this year. The popular local breakfast and lunch chain will open four Missouri locations in Creve Coeur, O’Fallon, Overland Park and Kansas City, according to Brant Baldanza, managing partner of OG Hospitality Group.
“After we opened Frontenac and Chesterfield, we knew we were on to something,” Baldanza said. “We never want to grow just to grow, but we saw a vacancy in the market and decided to go for it.”
OG Hospitality Group, which also owns The Tavern Kitchen & Bar and Corner Pub & Grill, has Shack locations in Valley Park, Frontenac and Chesterfield. Baldanza said Shack No. 4 would debut in O’Fallon at 2931 Highway K in February in an 8,000 square-foot space with 200 seats.
In April, the fifth Shack is scheduled to open at 12521 Olive Blvd., in Creve Coeur, formerly home to a Shogun location. Baldanza said that OG Hospitality has also signed a letter of intent for a space in South County, and he hopes to have a lease signed soon. All the new Shacks will essentially feature the same menu as the original.
In addition to St. Louis, Shack will open two locations in Overland Park in Kansas City in late spring and early summer. Like their St. Louis counterparts, Baldanza said the Kansas City restaurants will feature local purveyors for items like coffee and beer.
Matt Sorrell is staff writer at Sauce Magazine.
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This is the first large-scale testing of breakthrough RFID tag technology developed by researchers at the Auto-ID Center, headquartered at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Starting in 2003, in partnership with selected retail customers, Gillette will begin placing tiny RFID tags in products for the U.S. market. Up to half a billion tags could be placed on Gillette products over the next few years.
The tags make it possible to track products through their production life cycle, from manufacturing to retail point-of-sale. It is hoped that this technology will enable businesses not only to reduce losses resulting from out-of-stock, stolen or lost products, but also to improve efficiencies across their operations by monitoring the status and location of products.
The tags will be used with the “smart shelf” technology. The shelf utilizes Auto-ID technology to monitor the status of products on display. It will alert retail staff when stocks become low or are being stolen and will enable automatic re-ordering of products.
-- From ARCwire.